How Star Trek: Lower Decks Managed To Get Enterprise’s Jolene Blalock To Appear, And Why She’s Only Credited By Her First Name

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• cobysev@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The creator of Lower Decks wrote her a letter explaining how important her character was to him and she read the script and enjoyed it. She also asked if she could just go by Jolene in this, which he was cool with.

  Saved you a click.

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  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    She didn’t tell me why, but she was like, ‘I would prefer just to be Jolene in this,’ and we were happy to do it.

    The creator couldn’t shed light on why the request was made, but confirmed they honored it, and that’s why Blalock is known simply as “Jolene” in the Star Trek: Lower Decks credits

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    • Mongostein@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ha! “Cuz she asked.”

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Don’t care what anyone else says — she was great on Enterprise.

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  • Dave@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The article says:

    she’s well-loved and considered one of the best characters in Enterprise

    So I think you might be with the majority on this.

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    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sure, but they don’t care what the majority say.

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    None of the actors were the problem with Enterprise. Except maybe Scott Bakula because he was too well known.

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    • themoken@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bakula just hit the Archer casting too perfectly. The man just exudes boy scout, it’s what made Quantum Leap work too.

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  • SaintWacko@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m watching Enterprise right now and loving it

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    • Linktank@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Can you explain what you are enjoying about it? I just dropped it about 4 or 5 episodes into the final season because I just couldn’t keep slogging through.

      Between the baby oil lathering decontamination scenes and overall lack of believable or interesting characters and plot lines, I find it to be the least enjoyable Trek I’ve ever watched (so far) aside from maybe TOS.

      Help me see your perspective, where it is enjoyable. And please don’t even mention the intro.

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  • tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    100% agree

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• SupraMario@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can we just keep lower decks going? I hate that it’s been cancelled, it’s such a good show, I’m not really a trek fan at all and I love the hell out of it.

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  • AlexisFR@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nope, we are going to get Academy instead! You’ll like it, wether you want it or not.

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    • Fortyseven@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Admittedly I’m skeptical of it, but finding out Robert Picardo is involved makes my ears perk up.

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  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I want so much to watch it. But it’s only 20 minutes, and the intro plays everytime, and a recap every episode. There’s like 12 minutes of show.

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    • maccentric@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Might be the appliance you’re watching it on? On my Apple TV you can skip the intros, skip the recap, and at the end you can skip the credits to go to the next episode (after seeing who all the guest voice actors were, natch).

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  • xyguy@startrek.website ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think we should do a letter writing campaign. It worked for TOS.

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• observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why she’s only credited by her first name: because she asked and Mike McMahan agreed even though he didn’t know why.

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• TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Oh, Murray, one small thing. When you bring me out, can you introduce me as Jolene.”

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• Chuymatt@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I hear her treatment was kind a crap, so I get her reticence to say year to returning.

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